Kaiser Releases Prez Candidate Health Proposal
Comparison Tool

A Kaiser news release said the tool, 2008
Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals:
Side-by-Side Summary, is available at
http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm
. It summarizes positions in four overall categories:
access to health care coverage, cost containment,
improving the quality of care and financing, according to
the announcement.

The site allows users to customize side-by-side
comparisons by selecting as many as four candidates for
comparison that can then be formatted into a
printer-friendly format. Users will also be able to print
out documents comparing all the Democratic candidates and
all the Republican candidates.

The candidates’ summaries were prepared by Foundation
staff with the assistance of Health Policy Alternatives,
the announcement said.

The details on the site are based on information
appearing on the candidates’ Web sites and supplemented
with information from candidate speeches, the campaign
debates and news reports. The sources of information are
identified for each candidate’s summary, Kaiser
said.